Steve Whitson

Senior Software Developer at Zix
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(386) 825-5501
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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

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Chris Winemiller

Steve was the software configuration manager for out major, complex project that required multiple configurations. He transformed a manual operation into one that was highly automated, writing code and scripts along the way to accomplish the automated building and testing of the software. He has since expanded to include other company software projects under his wings, and he has done an outstanding job on them all. He also made significant contributions to the design and implementation of license verification software for these products. Steve also keeps his software knowledge up to date, even at his own expense.

Brand Hilton

Steve is one of the best software developers I've ever worked with. He's very productive and focused with tremendous attention to detail. He's also very personable and easy to work with. Highly recommended.

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Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Senior Software Developer
      • 2012 - Present

      • Worked as the Associate Team Lead of an agile 8-member room, responsible for planning and estimating software releases, reviewing backlogs of defects for future releases, and mentoring team members. • Wrote initial prototype for and spearheaded rewrite of a VSTO COM Outlook Add-In to the new MS Office JavaScript Add-In framework. • Built OpenAPI specifications for existing REST APIs and designed API contract-based tests utilizing these specifications that were then integrated into CI/CD pipeline in Gitlab. • Created a way to manage MIME test sets and support edge case testing and stress testing email systems. • Produced behavior-driven development (BDD) tests to ensure high-quality software improvements • Ensured embedded operating systems contained the latest available software updates to provide stability and security for customers. • Performed updates to latest encryption and hashing algorithms of email system to protect customers’ emails in flight and at rest. • Led a team to modernize an email portal web application to have a responsive web design. • Responsible for gathering requirements, designing, and developing email systems on many platforms. Show less

    • United States
    • Semiconductor Manufacturing
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Senior Software Developer
      • 1996 - 2012

      • Gathered requirements, designed, and developed a license management web application to allow customers to generate, retrieve, and view their licenses and the company to track the licenses. • Wrote an application licensing API limiting the company’s software applications to use only on systems having valid licenses. • Designed and developed a web application for source code release, product builds and launching of automated tests. • Created a web application to baseline products in Subversion and automate packaging which increased efficiency and minimized human error when establishing product baselines as well as allowing developers to easily create product installers for formal system testing and final distribution. • Developed a knowledge base web application used to capture common product information and share it with customers in a searchable way and in a central location. • Collaborated to generate a client-server application written in Java having a Swing user interface and utilizing JMS and JNDI to monitor and interdict semiconductor manufacturing machines. • Served as Webmaster for 14 years for a website that supplied all product distribution, customer support, and was for most of that time the company’s face on the Internet. Show less

    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Configuration Engineer
      • Sep 1992 - Jun 1996

      • Served as Configuration Administrator for a software tool-development group of over 20 engineers, configuring over 50 software products. • Developed and implemented an online tool change request system leveraging CMS on VAX VMS which was used internally by the tool-development group for change tracking and change control which improved the quality of the software process. • Assisted in the development of a Software Engineering Environment written in C, Ada, and Fortran which was used by the Operational Flight Program (OFP) programmers for debugging and tracking changes to OFPs. • Allowed developers to white-box test units of their code without having to use flight hardware by maintaining and enhancing the Automatic Unit Test Methodology product. • Allowed for system-level black-box testing by working as a member of a team to develop an Avionics Computing Environment written in C and Fortran which provides an F-16 software emulation used for testing and debugging OFPs. Show less

Education

  • Oklahoma State University
    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

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